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This is our last official post from your NSSLHA Board 2011. We would like to thank all of you for being a part of our student organization. It was a pleasure being your board. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors and studies! Good luck with finals and Happy Holidays!

If you remember in a previous post in the summer, CSULA and CSUN NSSLHA groups held a movie screening of the Aphasia Movie! Here are a few pictures and if you wish to see more, check it out on our Facebook Page!

If you remember in a previous post in the summer, CSULA and CSUN NSSLHA groups held a movie screening of the Aphasia Movie! Below are a few pictures and if you wish to see more, check it out on our Facebook Page!

On behalf of the CSULA NSSLHA Board (2011), we congratulate you guys and wish you the best of luck. To all of the CSULA NSSLHA members, it was a pleasure serving you this past school year. Good luck with all of your endeavors :)

This fall newsletter is chock-full of information regarding the ASHAConvention, which is only a week away! Read on for highlights of theconvention, including presenters from the CSULA academic community,the COMD Alumni mixer, and NSSLHA day! Other departmental newsincludes information about the COMD Science Peer Mentoring program,and the upcoming graduate school informational meeting.

It has been our pleasure serving you this past year! Congratulationsto the incoming NSSLHA board!

Relationship: investing on your relationship with a child can make a difference in clinic

PROMPT:

method that is for people with apraxia, but this can be used with people with various disorders.

use proprioception, kinesthetic, and tactile prompts

Tips

As students, take advantage of your discounts!

For CASHA, membership is $35/year for students. You can participate in several workshops to give you more knowledge about the speech-language field.

Balance! Maintain your work and recreation life.

Foster your relationships with your peers. Make connections!

Q&A

Have any of you worked with adults?

Yes. In the grad program you get to do a hospital internship to work with adults.

(Amanda) I have also worked with adults in the private practice I work at. For me, I want to see it all because I work with adults and children right now

(Caroline) I do some home health. I also worked with adults at USC when I was a graduate student.

Where can I get more information about going to workshops?

CASHA has different presentations at their annual CASHA convention.

Several workshops occur throughout the year.

PROMPT is a workshop in itself. You can look this up online.

Both Caroline and Amanda are part of District 7 of CASHA

We have one course on Dysphagia. How much should we look up on our own (regarding the material)?

It’s up to each person individually to do that on his/her own.

Be proactive with your externships. Ask questions. Request for certain clients. Ask to take notes for certain things. Build that relationship with your supervisor there! Take advantage and devour as much information as you can.

With the LEND program, how do you apply?

There’s an intervie.

Program lasts from September to May

Fill out an application.

32-39 programs across the country

It’s a year long program

How difficult is it to get into pediatrics at a hospital?

Positions do not open up as often.

If you are really interested, you should create an externship of this yourself because many hospitals don’t do that.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Time for our FIRST meeting of the school year! (Sorry about last month's meeting! ) This time it's happening:

What: CSULA COMD graduate student alumni, Amanda Tyree & Caroline Lee will be our guest speakers. Amanda Tyree currently works as a SLP at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and in a private practice. Caroline Lee works as a SLP for Pasadena Child Development Associates. Topics will include working in a pediatric hospital setting/interdisciplinary setting and the LEND Program (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Training Program). An open forum will be available for a Q&A about graduate school, the SLP field in general, externships, and CFY

When: Next Monday November 7th from 6:20-7:10 pm (check in starts at 5:30pm!)

It's very important for you guys to come since elections will take place. Everyone will get a chance to cast their ballot for our new officers!!!! It could be YOU! Also, some other neat things will be happening at our meeting

NSSLHA T-shirts will be on SALE! That's right ladies and gent, $15! That's $2 off the original price ($17).

Dues are due! $20 for the whole school year. This money mostly goes to food and drinks for you guys to eat.

And a Raffle may occur! Gotta come to the meeting then to find out what will be raffled if it happens!

Other things happening in the world of CSULA and Speech Pathology:

The ASHA convention is coming up! Going? Well, the COMD department will be hosting a CSULA COMD Alumni & Current Students event! You can find all the information here on our Facebook Page!

Well that's it folks! Hope to *ahem-I-better* see you at our next meeting =P!